Mashable: Scammers are increasingly posing as loved ones, survey suggests. “Phone number verification tool ClarityCheck just conducted a survey of around 1,900 adults in the U.S., UK, and European Union, and found that 64 percent of respondents have encountered a suspicious message or call that seemed to come from someone they knew.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/13/mashable-scammers-are-increasingly-posing-as-loved-ones-survey-suggests/#FakePeople
#AI #media #FakePeople #misinformation
'Out of a sample of 250 expert-quoting articles published in [four publications] in 2025 and late 2024, 25 experts do not exist, are impossible to track down/verify online or were not named in the first place.'
PressGazette: Faces of fakery: More fake and AI generated experts con their way into media. “Out of a sample of 250 expert-quoting articles published in The Sun, Daily Express, Mirror, Daily Mail and Daily Star in 2025 and late 2024, 25 experts do not exist, are impossible to track down/verify online or were not named in the first place.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/12/faces-of-fakery-more-fake-and-ai-generated-experts-con-their-way-into-media-pressgazette/
I don't usually watch the NFL and watching the pre-game shows today reminds me why I don't. FFS the mindless dribble! 🤢🤮🏈
#nfl #superbowl #mindless #repetition #repetitive #advertising #fakepeople #propaganda #bigpharma #pharmaceuticals
Canary Media: Are faked public comments about to tank an Ohio solar farm?. “Ohio is poised to block a major solar farm because of local pushback — even though a substantial number of public comments opposing the installation appear to be fabricated.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/06/canary-media-are-faked-public-comments-about-to-tank-an-ohio-solar-farm/The Guardian: Experts warn of threat to democracy from ‘AI bot swarms’ infesting social media. “Political leaders could soon launch swarms of human-imitating AI agents to reshape public opinion in a way that threatens to undermine democracy, a high profile group of experts in AI and online misinformation has warned.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/25/the-guardian-experts-warn-of-threat-to-democracy-from-ai-bot-swarms-infesting-social-media/New-to-me, from University of Cambridge: Price of a bot army revealed across hundreds of online platforms. “For the first time, the Cambridge Online Trust and Safety Index (COTSI) allows the global community to monitor real-time market data for the ‘online manipulation economy’: the SIM farms that mass-produce fake accounts for scammers and social bots. These markets openly sell SMS message […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/10/university-of-cambridge-price-of-a-bot-army-revealed-across-hundreds-of-online-platforms/
The domain name Galate.ai is available if anyone wants to do the funniest thing.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #FakePeople #AICharacters
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #FakePeople #AICharacters
Never trust sweet words, because nowadays people have sugar on their lips and poison in their heart.
#TrustIssues #FakePeople #WordsHurt #RealityCheck #SelfProtection #LifeLessons #HealingJourney #GuardYourHeart #NoMoreLies #TruthHurts #Mindset #Quotes #Caution #ShareInspireQuotes
I'm so tired of fake friends 😮💨
#FakePeople #Fake_People #FakeFriend #FakeFriends #FakeFriendship #Friend #Friends #Friendship
Radio Prague International: Russian propaganda spreading on Czech TikTok ahead of elections. “The Center for Online Risk Research, an initiative led by IT experts, has drawn attention to the activity of fake accounts on TikTok in Czechia. Their analysis revealed nearly three hundred interconnected accounts that artificially boost their reach to millions of views per week by sharing and […]
NPR: This TikTok video is fake, but every word was taken from a real creator. “Ali Palmer, a creator in Dallas who posts on TikTok as @aliunfiltered_, made a video — about a father who jumped off a Disney cruise ship to save his child — that was ripped off using her exact words for a video made with AI.”
University of Portsmouth: Research reveals how fake social media accounts could be the cause of serious security breaches. “New research led by the University of Portsmouth has found that fake social media profiles, particularly LinkedIn accounts, are a leading cause of security breaches among professionals.”
Engadget: Amazon is testing AI-generated hosts that talk customers through product features . “Amazon is testing a new feature that involves AI-generated hosts talking through product summaries. It looks fairly similar to Google’s audio overviews, which also include AI-generated hosts that seem plucked from a middling podcast.”
Lifehacker: What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Fake Jasmine Crockett Videos. “The real Crockett is sharp, confrontational, and isn’t afraid to curse people out. AI-Jasmine Crockett is a folk hero who spends her life STUNNING, DESTROYING, and OBLITERATING various talk show hosts, actors, and political opponents. She took on Bill Maher, humiliated Seth Meyers, made Ellen DeGeneres regret […]
Tubefilter: 20 years of YouTube: In 2006, Lonelygirl15 taught us that nothing is real on the internet. “In 2025, Bree is remembered as a harbinger of all the fake internet stuff that came after her. It’s now far more common for individuals to adopt constructed on-screen personalities, and ersatz content has become so widespread that some digital philosophers now espouse the ‘dead internet […]
The Hacker News: Claude AI Exploited to Operate 100+ Fake Political Personas in Global Influence Campaign. “The sophisticated activity, branded as financially-motivated, is said to have used its AI tool to orchestrate 100 distinct personas on the two social media platforms, creating a network of ‘politically-aligned accounts’ that engaged with ’10s of thousands’ of authentic accounts.”
CBS: Why people are using AI to fake disabilities like Down syndrome online. “AI-generated accounts impersonating people with Down syndrome are spreading across social media, according to an analysis by CBS News Confirmed. Many of these artificial intelligence-backed profiles are gaining followers faster than real disability advocates — and they’re making money from it.”
Sydney Morning Herald: Thy has been on the radio for six months. Turns out she isn’t real. “A Sydney radio station has been using an AI-generated host for about six months without disclosing it – and was not legally obliged to. It was revealed last week that Australian Radio Network’s (ARN) Sydney-based CADA station, which broadcasts across western Sydney and is available online and […]
"A boner. He got a boner. From a picture of an imaginary woman meant to be working for him."
#wtf #ai #genai #artificialstupidity #fakenews #fakepeople #artificialpeople
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